Lee Culpepper
Every time a female-teacher-sex scandal breaks, I wonder if I’m the only person curious to see what the teacher looks like. These ravaging women often evoke references to Van Halen’s song “Hot for Teacher.” The story is not that attractive-female deviants are less guilty than the unattractive-female weirdos molesting schoolboys; it’s just that attractive female perverts ignite more debate whether their schoolboy targets have suffered any harm. Apparently, discussing ugly-female molesters traumatizes the debaters.
Despite these disturbed-female teachers being socially retarded, convincing an average adolescent boy to have sex with a pretty and older woman requires minimal social dexterity. Whether you think it’s the female teachers or their schoolboy lovers who have “scored,” the debate centers over the effects on the boys. Are the boys left psychologically devastated? Hopefully not, but lustful encounters in general leave reasonably moral people feeling emotionally empty. But that’s a topic for another day.
What doesn’t receive enough attention is the effect these teachers have on how the boys view women. Neither is much attention given to the effect these tutoring tarts have on how the boys view daughters — whose fathers might initially find the raunchy details of these classroom floozies’ tantalizing (until Dad remembers how such boys will view Dad’s daughter). Why wouldn’t these sexual experiences tarnish young males’ respect for women? These lecherous-female teachers certainly taint the boys’ perception of other women in society — particularly females with leadership responsibilities.
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